Meat Bird

A weird fleshy lump

[plastiboo]

[berniesrevolution]

Martin Luther King speaking to striking workers in Memphis

[uncensored-aj]

Once again reblogging my pinned post, my favorite Martin Luther King Jr. quote, for Juneteenth!

[thenixkat]

ID: A GIFset of MLK, Jr. giving a speech, captioned “All labor has dignity, you are reminding the nation, that it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation, and receive starvation wages!”. End ID.

[tredlocity]

[tredlocity]

[bruzum]

[skulki-d]

Every so often he just randomly stops lying for a few minutes and it's always hilarious

[tamamita]

Strait closed again because the Israelis are way too genocidal and can't stop murdering people

[tamamita]

[tamamita]

Due to obvious pressure from Iran, the US forced Israel into a ceasefire effective immediately. The Yanks don't want the MoU to be sabotaged.

(x)

[tamamita]

Closed again, because the Israelis can't fucking stop murdering people.

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[enba-and-luka]

[lateleviathan]

THIS IS NOT THE END OF STOPKILLINGGAMES

THERE'S A WAY TO BYPASS THE COMMISSION AND PEOPLE ARE ALREADY WORKING ON IT

[roguesynapses]

Tldw; there is majority support in the European Parliament for a bill that would cover most of SKG's issues, and if passed this would bypass the decision of the Commission. There are also ongoing lawsuits in France and other places that would likely lead to some legislation. There is also a bill being worked on in California that wouldn't stop current games from being killed, but would stop future games from being killed

[captain-price-returns]

[xipiti]

Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized

A spokesman for former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Kentucky republican was admitted to a hospital on Sunday.

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[walks-the-ages]

"I don't know why there's so many low ratings on this book!"

same reviewer:

"I mean, sure, it took til page 300-something of the 400+ page book for me to actually care about the characters or even remember their names, but that last 100 pages, the pacing really picked up and I felt something for the characters!

"I can't wait for the sequel, because there was a LOT of things that didn't get any conclusion to at the end of the book!"

[this book was endlessly, deliberately advertised as a standalone to get people to read it in the first place, only to have the rug pulled out from under readers feet when they finish the book and nothing has any kind of satisfying conclusion, the main plot points have been completely glossed over, epic final battles have been skipped over completely with a time skip, and the book is one big hunk of shallow, poorly-executed tropes that got speedrunned by cardboard cutouts in the background]

It's literally hilarious how even the "positive" reviews trying to praise the book ends up pointing out its fatal flaws.

Hint: a book shouldn't be a slog to read until the final 50 pages-- that's just bad writing.

If it takes you suffering through 300 pages in a 400 page "standalone" to actually LIKE the characters, that's just bad writing.

If a book was deliberately, exclusively advertised as "An epic, standalone fantasy novel" only for it to

1) not be an epic fantasy by any definition, to the point "positive" reviewers warn people not to read it with that expectation

and

2) not able to stand on its own two feet with a well-built world or characters like a standalone novel REQUIRES

3) LITERALLY not be standalone because now its gonna be a fucking trilogy?

That's not only bad writing, that's predatory publishing tactics, straight up. literally falsely advertising a book as one thing, and then delivering a completely different product in the hopes that at least a few people will be willing to continue shelling out money for a series literally designed from the ground up to string the audience along for the sake of book sales, instead of actually having a cohesive, planned story arc for the series to accomplish.

[trevorhenderson]

night foraging

[hotvampireadjacent]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

bringing a sort of "slavery is still alive and well in US prisons" vibe to the office Juneteenth post that my higher ups don't really like

[hunter-gratzner]

From what I understand slavery was never actually abolished in the us. It is still legal and all.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not a bummer, say it louder

[saywhat-politics]

[tamamita]

Strait closed again because the Israelis are way too genocidal and can't stop murdering people

[tamamita]

[tamamita]

Due to obvious pressure from Iran, the US forced Israel into a ceasefire effective immediately. The Yanks don't want the MoU to be sabotaged.

(x)